对比不同MRI影像特征对癫痫病灶分割的影响,发现融合多模态信息可显著提升精度。
Benchmarking MRI Representations for Deep Learning-Based Focal Cortical Dysplasia Segmentation

- 用统一框架测试8种MRI输入方式,分离影像表示的影响
- 多模态组合(4通道)使分割准确率提升5.0%,达Dice=0.376
- 比率图像虽单独无效,但与常规图像结合能增强病灶识别
局灶性皮质发育不良(FCD)是药物难治性局灶性癫痫的主要结构病因,但其影像表现微妙且异质,常规磁共振成像(MRI)难以准确识别。尽管临床常采集T1加权(T1w)和液体抑制反转恢复(FLAIR)图像用于术前评估,但不同MRI表示在深度学习驱动的FCD分割中作用尚不明确。本研究系统评估了nnU-Net框架下八种输入配置在公开的术前MRI数据集(85例FCD患者,25例健康对照)上的表现。所有实验采用相同预处理、网络架构、优化策略及五折交叉验证,以隔离影像表示的影响。单模态中,FLAIR表现最优;而仅使用比率衍生表示无法可靠识别微小病灶。将比率表示与常规T1w和FLAIR图像结合,持续提升病灶勾画效果,四通道多模态配置达到最高总体Dice分数(0.376),相较传统T1w+FLAIR提升5.0%。结果表明,影像表示设计是深度学习驱动的FCD分割中重要但未被充分探索的环节,应与网络架构同步优化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is one of the leading structural causes of drug-resistant focal epilepsy, yet its subtle and heterogeneous imaging characteristics make accurate identification and delineation challenging on conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Although T1-weighted (T1w) and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) images are routinely acquired for presurgical evaluation, the contribution of different MRI representations to deep learning-based FCD segmentation remains poorly understood. In this study, we present a systematic benchmark of MRI representations for automated FCD segmentation using the nnU-Net framework. A publicly available presurgical MRI dataset comprising 85 FCD subjects and 25 healthy controls was used to evaluate eight input configurations, including conventional MRI contrasts (T1w and FLAIR), ratio-derived representations, and their multimodal combinations. To isolate the effect of MRI representation, all experiments employed identical preprocessing, network architecture, optimization strategy, and five-fold cross-validation. Among the evaluated single-modality representations, FLAIR achieved the strongest overall performance, whereas ratio-derived representations alone were insufficient for reliable identification of subtle FCD. Incorporating ratio-derived representations with conventional T1w and FLAIR images consistently improved lesion delineation, with the four-channel multimodal configuration achieving the highest overall Dice score (0.376), representing a 5.0% relative improvement over the conventional T1w+FLAIR representation. These findings demonstrate that MRI representation design is an important yet underexplored component of deep learning-based FCD segmentation and should be optimized alongside network architecture.
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